Individual and Family Therapy in Branford, CT for teenagers and adults.
contact:
email: autumnholm4@gmail.com
phone: (203) 980 0526
address: 66 North Main Street, Branford CT 06405
About
me
My name is Autumn Holm, I am a Licensed Master Social Worker. I work with individuals who are navigating anxiety, trauma, mood challenges, and the stress of life transitions. I work with individuals across the lifespan, but am particularly passionate about work with teenagers.
I strive to offer a calm, attuned presence where you don’t have to hold everything alone. I take time to understand how your past experiences, current stressors, and the ways your body and mind carry these stories may be impacting your life today. Therapy with me is not about rushing or “fixing,” but about creating space for awareness, regulation, and meaningful change at a pace that feels safe and supportive.
I work with individuals who are navigating anxiety, trauma, mood challenges, and the stress of life transitions. Many of the people I support come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, or carrying experiences that have shaped how they see themselves and the world. Often, there’s a longing not only for relief from symptoms, but to feel truly understood and seen as a whole person, not defined by what’s been hard.
Outside of my work as a therapist, I enjoy spending time outdoors, hiking, snowboarding and mountain biking. I also enjoy slowing down to read, bake or hang out with my cats, Gus and Willow. These activities help me stay grounded, connected, and present; values I bring into my work with clients.
I graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology with a concentration in Mental Health, Magna Cum Laude, in 2019. I graduated from the Fordham Graduate School of Social Work in 2023 with my Masters in Social Work. I am currently working at Revelations Counseling under the supervision of an LCSW.
email: autumnholm4@gmail.com
phone: (203) 980 0526
address: 66 North Main Street, Branford CT 06405
Areas of Focus
Trauma and PTSD
Anxiety
Depression
Family Conflict
Teen Issues
ADHD
Bipolar Disorder
Codependency
Relationship issues
School issues
Life transitions
Spirituality
Attachment
Modalities
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)- EMDR is a structured, evidence-based psychotherapy designed to help people process and reduce the distress associated with traumatic memories and other disturbing life experiences. During EMDR sessions, a clinician guides the client to focus on a specific memory while simultaneously providing bilateral stimulation (commonly side-to-side eye movements, taps, or sounds). This dual attention appears to facilitate the brain’s natural information-processing, allowing clients to reprocess the memory so it becomes less vivid and emotionally charged and to integrate healthier beliefs about themselves. It is recommended for posttraumatic stress disorder and has also been applied to anxiety, depression, phobias, complicated grief, and some other conditions.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)- TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment for ages 3-18 years old, designed to help children, adolescents, and their caregivers process and recover from trauma. It combines trauma-sensitive interventions with cognitive-behavioral techniques, such as psychoeducation, relaxation training, affect regulation, cognitive processing, and gradual exposure through trauma narrative work. The process involves support from caregivers. TF-CBT aims to reduce trauma-related symptoms (like PTSD, anxiety, and depression), build coping skills, and strengthen family communication and resilience. Sessions are structured, time-limited, and adapted to the child’s developmental level.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - DBT is an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment developed to help people manage intense emotions, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and build a life worth living. It combines skills training in four core areas—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—with individual therapy and phone coaching. DBT emphasizes acceptance and change: validating a person’s experience while teaching practical strategies to increase emotional resilience, improve relationships, and decrease crisis-driven behavior. It is widely used for emotion dysregulation across many diagnoses.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)- CBT is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors contributing to emotional distress. It focuses on the present, teaching practical skills—such as cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, and exposure techniques—to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns. CBT is collaborative and goal-oriented, often involving homework between sessions to practice new ways of thinking and responding, with measurable progress over weeks to months.
Somatic Intervention- Integrating somatic interventions into therapy supports healing by attending to the body as well as the mind. These interventions—breathwork, grounding exercises, movement, and mindful attention to sensations—help regulate the nervous system, reduce physiological reactivity, and create access to stuck emotions and memories. When blended with talk-based approaches, somatic methods deepen safety, increase embodiment, and improve capacity for self-soothing and resilience.
Services
Insurance: I am in-network with Husky (Medicaid), Aetna, and Cigna. I can provide a SuperBill for out of network reimbursement if my services are not covered under your plan.
Individual Therapy
55-minute sessions
$150 per session
Individual therapy is a focused, confidential process in which you work one-on-one with a licensed clinician to explore emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and life patterns; through evidence-based techniques and a collaborative relationship, the therapist helps the client develop insight, coping skills, and practical strategies to reduce distress, improve functioning, and pursue personal goals. The therapy is tailored to each individual's needs; whether short-term symptom relief, skill-building for anxiety or depression, trauma-informed work, or long-term personal growth.
My approach is holistic and trauma-informed, focusing on looking beyond symptoms to get to the root of the issue. We will build practical tools to navigate anxiety, trauma, mood challenges, and life transitions. I integrate modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and somatic and mindfulness-based interventions, always with a focus on the therapeutic relationship as a space for safety, connection and healing.
Family Therapy
60-minute sessions
$175 per session
Family therapy involves multiple family members working together to address patterns, conflicts, transitions, and distress that affect the family system. Rather than focusing only on one individual's symptoms, family therapy views problems in the context of relationships, communication patterns, roles, and the interplay between members. It can be short-term or longer-term and is used with families across the lifespan. Family therapy can be brief and focused on specific problems or more comprehensive for longstanding relational patterns. It can occur in-office, via telehealth, or in community settings, and may include whole-family sessions, sub-system meetings (parents only, siblings only), or individual work that complements family goals.
Family therapy can offer improve communication, conflict resolution skills, improved understanding of roles, rules, and dynamics, enhanced family cohesion, practical tools for managing challenges, among many other benefits.
EMDR Intensive
2 hours: $400
3 hours (half-day): $575
6 hours (full-day): $1075
Please note EMDR Intensives are not covered by insurance and are private pay only.
An EMDR Intensive extends beyond the standard session length, into a prolonged, structured treatment session. EMDR therapy process into a longer, more concentrated timeframe. While the goal remains the same as standard EMDR- to reduce distress associated with traumatic memories and maladaptive beliefs through adaptive information processing- intensives allow for deeper, sustained work within fewer sessions. These sessions are thoughtfully structured to support accelerated symptom relief and meaningful clinical change, while prioritizing safety, pacing, and integration.
EMDR Intensives may benefit individuals with a clearly defined treatment target who want to make deeper progress in a shorter period of time, prefer a concentrated treatment format, or have experienced partial progress in weekly therapy. They can also be helpful for those facing upcoming life demands or transitions who are seeking focused, accelerated support.
Contact Me!
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I offer a free 20-minute consultation so we can connect, talk through any questions you have, and explore whether working together feels aligned with what you need.
email: autumnholm4@gmail.com
phone: (203) 980 0526
address: 66 North Main Street, Branford CT 06405